For the new followers, here's my blog post with strategies for fostering active learning in hybrid and socially distanced classrooms: https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/2020/06/active-learning-in-hybrid-and-socially-distanced-classrooms/. Most are useful for synchronous online classes (e.g. Zoom), as well.
Active Learning in Hybrid and Physically Distanced Classrooms

by Derek Bruff, Director If you’ve read Norman Clark’s hypothetical day in the life of a physically distanced classroom, then you’ve probably started to worry about how faculty and other instructors...

https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/2020/06/active-learning-in-hybrid-and-socially-distanced-classrooms/
For a quick intro to engaged students via live polling, see my 2009 essay "Multiple-Choice Questions You Wouldn't Put on a Test," https://podnetwork.org/content/uploads/V21-N3-Bruff.pdf. And for more ideas, there's that book I wrote: https://derekbruff.org/?page_id=3475 .
For some ideas for using text chat during synchronous online classes (e.g. Zoom), see my blog post "Backchannel in Education -Nine Uses," https://derekbruff.org/?p=472 .
And for more ideas for online and hybrid teaching this fall, see this overview of resources from the fantastic @VandyCFT team: https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/preparing-for-fall-2020-resource-overview/. Seriously, we have such a great team at the CFT!
Preparing for Fall 2020: Resource Overview

The Center for Teaching is making available a number of resources for faculty and other instructors as they prepare for what is likely to be a challenging fall semester. Some instructors will be...

https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/preparing-for-fall-2020-resource-overview/
Thanks to @joshua_r_eyler for tagging me in his fantastic thread on engaging students in synchronous online classes. I think that brought about 200 new Twitter followers! I'm grateful for the education community here.
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